Help me out here, Ex Buddhists.

[Mudhammam]

Now you want the scientific reality of why religion pops up, "The God Delusion" by Dawkins explains it and "The New Atheism" by Victor Stenger explains where it is coming from. Explaining reality isn't a denial of rights anymore than saying the moon isn't made of cheese is a denial of rights. What others do with accepting or rejecting those facts isn't forcing them to accept them by gunpoint. Science works regardless of what our personal biases are. And the fact is that all religions are a result of our species gap filling.

Of course science works... within the framework that it is meant to work. I highly doubt that framework is applicable to the sorts of things that inspire a person to seek out Buddhism.